8h ago

Sr Staff Engineer, Data Infrastructure

San Jose, California

$182.4k-$228k / year

full-timesenioraerospace

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll architect and own the data infrastructure backbone powering Data Engineering and ML teams at Archer, an aerospace company building electric vertical takeoff aircraft. Your goal is a seamless self-service environment where data scientists run JupyterHub, Ray clusters, and Trino queries without hardware concerns. You'll drive zero-manual-touch GitOps automation using ArgoCD and Terraform.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Architect and manage lifecycle of Trino, Ray, and JupyterHub on Kubernetes.
  • Drive GitOps automation with ArgoCD and Terraform for stateful data environments.
  • Build high-cardinality monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Vector.
  • Maintain and optimize MLflow for model tracking and compute integration.

📋 Requirements

  • Data infrastructure experience scaling databases and Ray clusters on Kubernetes.
  • Senior leadership with proven on-call incident response and automation.
  • Go or Python proficiency to extend Kubernetes Operators or automate workflows.
  • U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for ITAR compliance.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 💰 Competitive base pay $182,400-$228,000
  • 🏖️ Pay-for-performance culture
  • ⚖️ Equal opportunity employer

🚩 Heads Up

  • ITAR citizenship requirement may limit applicant pool
  • On-call rotation for data stack
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